Department and Enterprises

The research activities are developed both with public financing and in cooperation with private enterprises.

As regards public financing, in the last years the Department has participated to ten MIUR PRIN projects, to two projects funded by the Italian Space Agency for the development of new generation satellite systems, to one "Industria 2015" project and to four European projects in the scope of FP7. The total public funding of the Department for 2009-2010 was over 2M€.

The Department has many collaborations and research contracts with private enterprises and they represent one of main activity of the Department for over 1,3M€ research contracts in 2009-2010. This activity has often a high scientific relevance or regards situations in which the usual design rules do not provide adequate results. The tests that use the Department equipment fall in this scope.

The Department is also deeply involved in the new laboratories of the High Technology Network of Emilia Romagna, born from the fusion of the Network Laboratories funded in the preceding three years. The Department participates to 5 of the 14 Emilia Romagna laboratories and, in particular, to the laboratories on Environment, Automation, electronics and ioengineering, Industrial innovation and environmental energetic sustainability, Advanced mechanics, Micro and nano technologies. Moreover the Department hosts the MechLav laboratory of the "Tecnopolo di Ferrara".